Oversight--National Park Service: Hearing, Ninety-second Congress, First Session, on a Study on the Activities of the National Park Service. June 15, 1971, Volumen8,Tema 21 -Volumen13,Tema 21

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Página 39 - Either some Caesar or Napoleon will seize the reins of government with a strong hand, or your republic will be as fearfully plundered and laid waste by barbarians in the twentieth century as the Roman Empire was in the fifth, with this difference, that the Huns and Vandals who ravaged the Roman Empire came from without, and that your Huns and Vandals will have been engendered within your own country by your own institutions.
Página 22 - Rivers; thence east to the place of beginning, is hereby reserved and withdrawn from settlement, occupancy, or sale under the laws of the United States, and dedicated and set apart as a public park or pleasuring ground for the benefit and enjoyment of the people...
Página 22 - States is hereby authorized, in his discretion, to declare by public proclamation historic landmarks, historic and prehistoric structures, and other objects of historic or scientific interest that are situated upon the lands owned or controlled by the Government of the United States to be national monuments...
Página 29 - Indian Affairs, Laws and Treaties" as revised and extended in accordance with paragraph (1) of subsection (a), and the compilation prepared in accordance with paragraph (3) of such subsection, the Secretary of the Interior shall take such action as may be necessary to keep such document and compilation current on an annual basis.
Página 22 - In the midthirties the Congress again broadened the concept and purpose of the National Park System: First, the act of March 3, 1933, providing for reorganization within the Executive Branch, resulted in an Executive Order transferring to the Department of the Interior for administration by the National Park Service the national memorials and parks of our Nation's Capital, many national monuments, and historical and military parks administered by other Federal agencies.
Página 2 - Thank you, Mr. Chairman and members of the subcommittee. I have a prepared statement which I would like to submit for the record and then talk extemporaneously.
Página 23 - The service thus established shall promote and regulate the use of the Federal areas known as national parks, monuments, and reservations hereinafter specified by such means and measures as conform to the fundamental purpose of the said parks, monuments, and reservations, which...
Página 23 - Secretary") is authorized and directed to cause the National Park Service to make a comprehensive study, other than on lands under the jurisdiction of the Department of Agriculture, of the public park, parkway, and recreational-area programs of the United States, and of the several States and political subdivisions thereof, and of the lands throughout the United States which are or may be chiefly valuable as such areas...
Página 22 - GOVERNOR OF THE CANAL ZONE, PRESIDENT, PANAMA CANAL COMPANY 1 . Mrs. Chairman and members of the committee, I am WA Carter, Governor of the Canal Zone and President of the Panama Canal Company. This is the first opportunity I have had to appear before you in my present capacity and I would like for you to know that I very much appreciate the opportunity to do so. I am accompanied by Merrill Whitman, Secretary, and Philip L. Steers, Jr., Comptroller. 2. By letter dated December 21, 1960, President...
Página 41 - ... JONAS V. MORRIS, REPRESENTING NATIONAL PARKS AND CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION Mr. MORRIS. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. My name is Jonas Morris. I am appearing today in behalf of the National Parks and Conservation Association, and we do appreciate your invitation to testify on this channelization matter. I do have a prepared statement th'at I would like to have included in the record if I may, sir, and I will make A few brief remarks if I may. (The statement referred to appears below.) Mr.

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